different between grape vs uveous

English

Etymology

From Middle English grape, from Old French grape, grappe, crape (“cluster of fruit or flowers, bunch of grapes”), from graper, craper (“to pick grapes”, literally “to hook”), of Germanic origin, from Frankish *krapp? (“hook”), from Proto-Indo-European *greb- (“hook”), *gremb- (“crooked, uneven”), from *ger- (“to turn, bend, twist”). Cognate with Middle Dutch krappe (“hook”), Old High German krapfo (“hook”) (whence German Krapfen (“Berliner doughnut”). More at cramp.

Pronunciation

• enPR: gr?p, IPA^(key): /??e?p/
• Rhymes: -e?p

Noun

grape (countable and uncountable, plural grapes)

1. (countable) A small, round, smooth-skinned edible fruit, usually purple, red, or green, that grows in bunches on vines of genus Vitis.
2. (countable) A woody vine that bears clusters of grapes; a grapevine; of genus Vitis.
3. (countable, uncountable) A dark purplish-red colour, the colour of many grapes.

4. (uncountable) grapeshot.
5. A mangy tumour on a horse's leg.
6. (US, slang, colloquial, African-American Vernacular) A person's head.

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Adjective

grape (comparative more grape, superlative most grape)

1. Containing grapes or having a grape flavor.
2. Of a dark purplish red colour.

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Verb

grape (third-person singular simple present grapes, present participle graping, simple past and past participle graped)

1. To pick grapes.
2. (of livestock) To develop tubercules as a result of tuberculosis.
3. To develop a texture with small grape-like clusters of a contaminant or foreign substance.
4. (dialect, north, Britain) To grope.
5. (dialect, Hong Kong) To envy (derived from "sour grapes" idiom).

Anagrams

• gaper, pager, parge

Danish

Etymology

Clipping of grapefrugt.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?r?jb/, [????jb?], [????jb?]

Noun

grape c (singular definite grapen, plural indefinite graper)

1. A grapefruit.

Inflection

Synonyms

• grapefrugt

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??rape]

Noun

grape f pl

1. indefinite plural of grap?
2. indefinite genitive/dative singular of grap?

Spanish

Verb

grape

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of grapar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of grapar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of grapar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of grapar.

Swedish

Etymology

Clipping of grapefrukt.

Noun

grape c

1. grapefruit

English

Etymology 1

From uva +? -eous.

Adjective

uveous (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Of, pertaining to, or resembling a grape or grapes.
   • 1879, Robert Scott, Poems, page 3,

     Behind, concealed by woods of pine, / There grew on plains the uveous vine;

Synonyms

• (of or pertaining to grapes): grapey

Etymology 2

From uvea +? -ous. (Related to above via Latin uva.)

Adjective

uveous (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of the uvea; uveal.
   • 1721, Cotton Mather, The Christian Philosopher: A Collection of the Best Discoveries in Nature, with Religious Improvements, 1815, page 250,

     The uveous coat and the inside of the choroides are wonderfully blackened; […] .

   • 1760, cataract, entry in Thomas Dyche, A New General Engli?h Dictionary, unnumbered page,

     […] al?o a di?temper in the eyes cau?ed by the congelation of phlegm between the uveous coat and cry?talline humour.

Synonyms

• (of or pertaining to the uvea): uveal